(The previous text of the Fifth Army Governor’s Office should be the Grand Governor’s Office, which has been corrected)
"Build the Kra Isthmus Canal?" Huang Huai said tentatively: "Your Majesty's intention is to build the Kra Isthmus canal here?"
"Exactly."
"Your Majesty, there is no need to rush into building the Kra Isthmus Canal." Lan Zhen said immediately: "Although building the canal can connect the Western and Southern Oceans, it only saves two thousand miles of sea route and can go around Puluo; but now we must prepare
In order to launch the war against India as soon as possible, I am afraid it will be difficult to build the canal at the same time. Your Majesty, I would like to wait until the war against India is over before building the canal."
Lan Zhen has not been to the Kra Isthmus area, but he has close military commanders serving as generals in Pu Fan, and the letters he wrote also roughly talked about the situation in Pu Fan. The area just occupied in the northern part of Pu Fan is still very backward.
There are a lot of farmland and villages that have been reclaimed, but there are even more forests. The preliminary exploration alone will take a lot of time, and then there will be construction. It may not take five or six years, and it is obviously not needed in the war with India.
; In order to build the canal, precious shipping capacity will be occupied, which may delay the start of the war with India. Of course, he is not willing to do so.
"The attack on India and the construction of the canal can go hand in hand, and there is no need to make a choice." Yunxi probably guessed what Lan Zhen was thinking, and said: "Now we are just exploring, and King Pu will send one or two hundred people to escort the explorers.
There will be no delay in preparing to attack India."
"If so, it's best." Li Jinglong said: "Your Majesty, after the attack on India, the fiefdoms of the vassal kings in India are a bit far away from the capital. Once this canal is built, the vassal kings in India will come to Beijing to pay tribute.
It is much easier, so the construction of this canal should be stepped up instead. The minister suggested that more manpower should be sent to explore from the left and right sides at the same time, so that the exploration should be completed as soon as possible and the construction should be started as soon as possible."
"What Aiqing said is true. In that case, I will send a few more people to explore." Yunxi said with a smile.
Lan Zhen glared at Li Jinglong. He didn't believe that the construction of the canal would not affect the preparations to attack India, but Li Jinglong expressed support, what else could he say? What else could he say? Of course Yunxi would not like the two comrades of the Dudu Mansion to be nice.
It's like being alone, but I don't want them to quarrel in public.
Li Jinglong smiled bitterly. Since His Majesty has already mentioned the construction of this canal in public, is it useful for you to oppose it? Of course it is okay to question it a little, and maybe His Majesty will think you are cautious; but it is not good to keep questioning it, as it will affect His Majesty's view of you.
Although he was mixed with his own selfishness, it was also for Lan Zhen's good. But Lan Zhen didn't understand, and couldn't explain it, so he could only smile bitterly, and smiled bitterly in his heart.
"..., Yang Qing from the Propaganda and Work Department will come to him in a while to give him instructions on this matter." Yunxi continued.
"Huang Qing, the decree to inform all the vassal kings of this matter must be issued as soon as possible, so that they can start preparations as soon as possible; but I will also send someone to patrol Nanyang again. This person will firstly explain the matter to them, and secondly, he will go to Java again.
Let’s take a tour of the island.”
"Your Majesty, may I ask who will be sent to patrol Nanyang?" Huang Huai asked.
"Five years ago, I sent King An to patrol Nanyang. If something similar happens five years later, let him still be sent to patrol Nanyang." Yunxi said with a smile.
"I will order people to prepare the ceremonial guard for the prince's tour." Huang Huai agreed.
After that, Yunxi discussed other matters with them. Huang Huai listened for a while and felt that it had nothing to do with the Ministry of Rites. First, he was anxious to arrange errands, and secondly, he didn't want to hear more about some things. He took advantage of Yunxi's pause to drink tea and said
: "Your Majesty, if there is no more matters related to the Ministry of Rites, I will retire first. The earlier the errand is arranged, the earlier it will be sent to the feudal country, and the princes will be able to make preparations earlier."
"Huang Qing, why don't you retreat now? I still have one more thing to discuss with Huang Qing. It's my fault that you forgot about the use of troops when we started talking about it. We should have discussed this matter first." Yunhe said with a smile.
"The use of troops to fight is a major matter for the country and cannot be ignored. Your Majesty is right to be concerned. If the matters related to the Ministry of Rites are not urgent, I will enter the palace again in the afternoon." Huang Huai said again.
"This matter is indeed not urgent, but I think it is better to discuss and settle it as soon as possible." Yunxi stopped talking nonsense and said: "I have met with envoys from various countries today, including the four countries from the far west.
Envoys, as well as several envoys from foreign countries from the southwest of the Qin Dynasty. When I talked with them, I suddenly felt that the words used by the Ming Dynasty to define the surrounding barbarian countries were not enough."
"Nanman, Dongyi, Beidi, Xirong, these are the words used to call the barbarian country in the pre-Qin Dynasty. Later, the territory of China gradually expanded, and all the land of Dongyi returned to China, and most of the southern barbarians became the land of China, so the words were changed. Later, Doudou
Turning to the Ming Dynasty, the tribes on the northern grasslands were called Beilu, and the Fan Kingdom in the west was called Xifan. Since the barbarians in the south were no longer enough to threaten the Ming Dynasty, they could not even cause any trouble to the Ming Dynasty, so the names were milder.
, is called Nanyang Zhufan. The sea to the west of Puluozhong is called Xiyang."
"But now the foreign countries further away from the Ming Dynasty are coming to pay tribute, and the Ming Dynasty also wants to accept India as a vassal. How to call them? India has been called the country of the West since ancient times. Is it collectively called Xifan? Even if India is also called Xifan,
What about the Western countries further west than Qin Fan, which have different hair colors, and believe in the Cross Religion? Southwest of Qin Fan, what about the Western countries that believe in Tianfang Religion? They are all collectively called Xifan? So the countries included in Xifan are also
There are too many, and these countries are all different, and the differences between them are even greater than the differences between them and the Ming Dynasty. I think it is inappropriate to call them all Western Fans."
"Besides, there is an ocean. The ocean south of India becomes the Western Ocean, but it is said that there is an ocean to the west of Western countries with various hair colors. So what is it called the ocean?"
"Furthermore, the extremely vast Hanzhou Continent was discovered to the east of the Ming Dynasty. I'm afraid it's inappropriate to still call this ocean the East China Sea, but if it's not called the East China Sea, how can we call it the East China Sea? There are Fan people in every vassal state on the Hanzhou Continent.
Should we use a unified name for different titles?" Yunxi said a lot in succession.
Today, I was talking to the envoy from Genoa. When he mentioned the word 'Africa', Yunxi suddenly became alert. In the past, when envoys from these Christian countries talked to him, they would occasionally say 'Europe' and 'Asia'.
, 'Central Asia', 'West Asia' and other words, Yunxi didn't pay much attention to them, and sometimes they used them casually. But of course when I heard the word Africa, I suddenly realized that these geographical words were invented by them.
This is not possible. In the previous life, the European Cross Christians completed control of the world and established a world system with Europe as the core. Of course, countries around the world adopted their geographical terms; now it is not they who established the world system and did
Why use their geographical terms?
Moreover, the classification of Christian Christians is obviously very problematic. As for other geographical divisions, such as the division between Europe and Asia, Christian Christians are equivalent to pushing all non-European civilizations into Asia, but in fact there is no clear dividing line at all.
Yunxi was determined to create his own classification method.
"I dare to ask Your Majesty, but what should I call my ministers when they are looking for ancient books?" Huang Huai asked.
"I have a rough idea in my mind, dear ladies, please refer to it for details. If what I say is inappropriate, dear gentlemen, you must point it out and I will consult with you for details."
Yunxi said: "The land under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, whether it is the Western Regions or Taiwan, whether it is Liaodong or Yunnan, will be called the Central Plains, Zhongtu, or Shenzhou according to the ancient name without any change; Nanyang will still be called Nanyang, including Burma and Siam.
Luo, Chenla, Champa, Luzon, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and other places. If land is discovered south of Sumatra and Java in the future, it will also be counted as the land of Nanyang. However, the Yue vassal was one of the thirteen states in the Han Dynasty.
The land will be counted as the Central Plains from now on."
"The mainland of Hanzhou, which is 20,000 miles away in the east, is counted as the Eastern Territory, and can also be called Hanzhou directly. The native lands on the continent are called Dongyi; the ocean that separates the Central Plains from the Eastern Territory, and the area east of Japan can be called Dongyang.
, the west is still called the East China Sea, or according to what Fang Mingqian said when he returned, there was no storm when sailing from Hanzhou to the Central Plains, and the journey was peaceful, and it is called the Pacific Ocean. Of course, the name of the Yongming Sea (Sea of Japan) does not need to change."
"India is located southwest of the Ming Dynasty and south of Qinghai-Tibet. It is not appropriate to call it the West. But from the capital, even if you start from Xi'an to India, you have to go west, so it is called the Near West. Of course it can still be called India."
"The land to the west of India and southwest of the Qin vassal is the birthplace of Tianfang believers. Although it is far away from the Central Plains, it is not far from the Qin vassal. It is called Zhongxi. Or, it is still called Tianfang."
"The place where the Christian countries are located is very far away from the Ming Dynasty, no less than the distance from the Central Plains to Hanzhou. However, there is no continent between Hanzhou and the Central Plains, only oceans, so travel is easier; there is no ocean connection between the Central Plains and the Christian countries, so communication is even more difficult.
It is not easy. From now on it will be called Taixi, or Fu Fu. There is also a very vast land south of Fu Fu. In the "Zhufan Chronicles" written by Zhao Rushi, a clan member of the Song Dynasty, it was recorded that a country was named Mojia.
"Hunting" is located on this continent, so Mojia hunting is the name of this continent. Moga hunting and Fu Fu may be collectively called Taixi."
"There are two oceans. Among them, the ocean south of India is located in Su Fan, west of Pu Fan, and southwest of Min Fan. It is called the Southwest Ocean, or it can be called the Indian Ocean. The ocean west of the West is called the Atlantic Ocean." General Yun Hui
I threw out all the results of my thinking.
When Yunxi spoke just now, Huang Huai and others were stunned. They thought that Yunxi really wanted them to know the details, but they didn't expect that the emperor had already thought about it all. They were not familiar with overseas foreign countries, and they knew a little bit about them at most.
In Nanyang and India, how do you know whether Yunxi's name is good or not? There is no way to raise objections.
"Since all my dear friends have no objections, let us tentatively adopt these names as official names." Seeing that no one was speaking, Yunxi made the final decision.
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Thanks to the drift of the book friends section, this is ridiculous, one by one, one by one, a small thousand, a fish basking in the sun, 1, 477, a reward from the United Russia Party. (To be continued)